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No other cocktail has landed more offshoots in the contemporary hall of fame. Here are six of our favorites.

Twenty-one recipes for the second generation of must-know cocktails, from the White Negroni to the Death Flip.

From a frappéd Amaretto Sour to a pared-down Paper Plane, these reimagined recipes hold their own.

Audrey Saunders’ pastis-spiked gin Mojito was an oddball argument for two outsider ingredients eager to breakthrough.

Joaquín Simó’s Jamaican rum-based spin on the aperitivo classic was a runaway success.

At Le Lion in Hamburg, Joerg Meyer’s herbaceous smash is ordered 22,000 times a year.

Julio Bermejo’s revision of the classic, now served from Indonesia to Ireland, has become the industry’s Margarita of record.

Paul Harrington's "Cosmo for grown-ups" was an early Campari-laced sour with an unlikely rise to prominence.

Marcovaldo Dionysos’s idiosyncratic cocktail elevated the French liqueur from bartender handshake to household name.

Leaving behind a trail of forgotten iterations and abandoned monikers, Dick Bradsell’s “Pharmaceutical Stimulant” remains as popular as ever.

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